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Medhat M. Kamal is a research consultant with Chevron Energy Technology Co. in San Ramon, California.He has more than 30 years of experience in well testing, reservoir description, and production and reservoir engineering and has published numerous papers on these subjects.

Kamal has been an active member of SPE for 35 years.He helped found the SPE Golden Gate Student Chapter at Stanford U. and has been active throughout his career in the SPE Mid-Continent Section in Tulsa, Gulf Coast Section in Houston, Dallas Section, and Golden Gate Section in San Francisco.

In addition to his section activities, Kamal's participation in Societywide programs has been extensive.
He has chaired the Monograph and Textbook committees, the SPE Cultural Diversity Committee, and several SPE Applied Technology Workshop and Forum steering committees.Kamal was Executive Editor of SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering during 2000-03 and a Distinguished Lecturer in 1997-98.He received the 1977 Cedric K. Ferguson Medal; the North, East, and Central Texas 1998 Regional Service Award; and the 2004 Formation Evaluation and Distinguished Service awards.
Kamal is the current Chairperson of the SPE R&D Advisory Committee and the program committee for the 2007 SPE R&D Conference.Kamal earned a BS degree from Cairo U. and MS and PhD degrees from Stanford U., all in petroleum engineering.

Dr. Medhat Kamal, Technology Project Manager for Chevron Energy Technology Company and Chairperson of the conference, posed this question and then proposed how the conference would move the industry toward finding answers.Read more »

Medhat M. Kamal is a research consultant with Chevron Energy Technology Co. in San Ramon, California.He has more than 30 years of experience in well testing, reservoir description, and production and reservoir engineering and has published numerous papers on these subjects.

Kamal has been an active member of SPE for 35 years.

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Kamal was Executive Editor of SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering during 2000-03 and a Distinguished Lecturer in 1997-98.He received the 1977 Cedric K. Ferguson Medal; the North, East, and Central Texas 1998 Regional Service Award; and the 2004 Formation Evaluation and Distinguished Service awards.
Kamal is the current Chairperson of the SPE R&D Advisory Committee and the program committee for the 2007 SPE R&D Conference.Kamal earned a BS degree from Cairo U. and MS and PhD degrees from Stanford U., all in petroleum engineering.

Dr. Medhat Kamal, Technology Project Manager for Chevron Energy Technology Company and Chairperson of the conference, posed this question and then proposed how the conference would move the industry toward finding answers.

"What we are trying to get out of this meeting is an honest discussion, and hopefully some guidelines, for forward steps towards figuring out how we as an industry will find and produce the next trillion barrels of oil that the world is counting on," says Kamal.The conference will bring together industry leaders, scientists and visionaries to discuss the many challenges facing the energy industry and the R&D initiatives that will be required to meet them.

"We cannot restrict ourselves to incremental advances of the things we are doing today within the oil and gas industry," says Kamal.In light of this, conference planners have invited technology experts in the fields of nanotechnology, materials science, microbial biochemistry, molecular transformation and manipulation, and visualization and associated modeling to discuss innovations outside the upstream oil industry and how they might be adapted for oil production.

Other sessions over the two-day event will focus on methods of improving deep-reading reservoir measurements, how to maximize production of heavy oil and other difficult crudes, addressing the environmental challenges of producing the next trillion, and finding and retaining the right people to solve these E&P problems.

The conference is expected to draw more than 300 attendees, and Dr. Kamal sees this as proof of the greater importance of R&D in today's E&P community.